Oil painting couple: Colonial school, Mexico, 17th century. Appearance of the Holy Trinity and Saint Michael to ...

Oil painting couple: Colonial school, Mexico, 17th century. Appearance of the Holy Trinity and Saint Michael to the saints San Juan de Mata and San Félix de Valois. Colonial school, Mexico, 17th century. The Holy Trinity and the Virgin with saints.
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Colonial school, Mexico, 17th century. Appearance of the Holy Trinity and Saint Michael to the saints San Juan de Mata and San Félix de Valois. Oil on copper. Related to the engraving of Guillaume Chasteau. In the upper part the Holy Trinity is represented, in the center the figure of Saint Michael the Archangel stands out, at his sides a white man and a black man, following the practice of exchanging or exchanging captives that personalizes the vision that Juan de Mata had in his first mass and that led him to the foundation of the Order seeing Christ the Redeemer in the midst of two captives, one white with a red and blue cross, the other black, and Christ took them both by the hands in an attitude of exchanging them , below the holy founders of the Trinitarian Order and among them a deer that according to tradition has to do with the months that he lived with Juan de Mata in Cerfroid, while helping him to discern the will of God and the most suitable place for it. One day, while walking through the forest, he could see a large deer approaching a nearby stream to drink, taking a closer look he discovered that between its antlers a Greek-shaped cross shone, with the horizontal arm in blue and, above it, the arm vertical in red. When communicating it to Juan de Mata, they both agreed to identify this sign as divine and to use that strange two-colored cross as a distinctive sign of the religious redeemers. This tradition is what supports the presence of a deer with a cross between the antlers in Trinitarian iconography, as well as at the feet of San Félix, sometimes even San Juan de Mata. 33 x 26 cm.

Colonial school, Mexico, 17th century. The Holy Trinity and the Virgin with saints. Represents in the upper part the Holy Trinity next to her the Virgin Mary, under this the apostles Saint Paul and Saint Peter, surrounded by other saints. 33 x 26 cm.